selfʺ emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is paternalistic: the rate of … show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics. This is because …

down. Depending on the relative returns from public pensions and private savings as well as on the elasticity of compliance … rate is more likely to be positive when the median income is low and when the return from public pensions dominates that of … private savings. The level of the Bismarkian pillar will now be chosen so as to account for increased political support, for …

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The … design of public pensions cannot be separated from the one of taxation. Regarding private pensions, the key issue is whether …